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Based upon the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie illustrates the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics pioneer and director of the film Heck's Angels The movie represents his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes became a successful film manufacturer and an aviation magnate while simultaneously growing more unstable because of severe obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

The much however brief advertised trip of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was genuinely recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The activity control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar minis constructed by New Deal Studios get on display screen at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

It is a historical epic that focused on a crucial period in the life of Howard Hughes among the most renowned and probably crucial men of the twentieth century. Also if it's not a full success, neither among his finest flicks, I still locate it to be a lot more entertaining than the majority of scrap Hollywood blacks out on a weekly basis.

Clocking in at 169 minutes, Bookmarks The Aviator tries to remain aloft, but like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture big can keep itself airborne just a couple of minutes at a time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Aviator images: Miramax Warner Bros